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Health Matters
Physical and emotional well-being are top priorities for everyone. Join KUED as we explore a variety of health and wellness issues through our new community outreach initiative, Health Matters.
From Alzheimer's to the latest in DNA research, we will offer information you can use regarding your health. Local and national programming, community events and resource materials will offer you an opportunity to explore the many topics that affect your health.
Be more informed. The more informed you are, the better equipped you'll be to ask the right questions. Because your health matters.
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Monday, December 14th @ 8:00 pm on 7.1
Anatomy of a Pandemic
This program presents an examination of the overarching human dimension of a pandemic's impact on modern society and the science and history of these health crises, in response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic. Ray Suarez, senior corresponde... »
Anatomy of a Pandemic
This program presents an examination of the overarching human dimension of a pandemic's impact on modern society and the science and history of these health crises, in response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic. Ray Suarez, senior corresponde... »
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P.O.V. The Way We Get By
On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting nearly 800,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. This film is an intimate look at three of these greeters as they confront the u... »
Independent Lens D Tour
Pat Spurgeon is a professional musician whose dreams of being in a successful working rock 'n' roll band have come true. But just as his band, Rogue Wave, starts to take off, one of his kidneys starts to fail. Pat's choice to keep touring and working... »
Frontline The Medicated Child
With over four million children now on behavior modifying medications -- some starting as young as two years old -- FRONTLINE continues its investigation into the controversial practice of medicating kids. Are the drugs safe? How young can you detect... » Friday, October 30th @ 12:00 am on 7.1
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making U... Collateral Damage/Not Just A Paycheck
Mainlanders view the Pacific Islands as a paradise, but diabetes, cardiovascular and kidney diseases and tuberculosis are taking a toll on the Pacific Islander population. In the Marshall Islands and in the unlikely spot of Springdale, AR, this progr... »
Botany of Desire
BOTANY OF DESIRE tells the story of four everyday plants and the way they have domesticated humankind by fulfilling our desires even as we've fulfilled the plants' desires. Based on Michael Pollan's book, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of t... » Friday, October 23rd @ 12:00 am on 7.1
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making U... Bad Sugar/Place Matters
"Bad Sugar" travels to the O'odham Indian reservations of southern Arizona where residents are marked not just by poverty but with the dubious distinction of perhaps the highest rates of Type 2 diabetes in the world. While public attention has been f... » Friday, October 16th @ 12:00 am on 7.1
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making U... When The Bough Breaks/Becoming American
African-American infant mortality rates remain twice as high as white Americans regardless of education level. Investigators are circling in on how the chronic stress of racism throughout a life can become a risk factor embedded in the body. Recent M... » Friday, October 9th @ 12:00 am on 7.1
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making U... In Sickness and In Wealth
This is a story about health, but it's not about doctors or drugs. Set mostly in Louisville, Kentucky, it's a detective story out to solve the mystery of what's stalking and killing so many Americans before their time. The program uncovers the connec... » Wednesday, October 7th @ 12:00 am on 7.1
Right to Risk: A 15 Day Journey Through...
Right to Risk: A 15 Day Journey Through Arizona's Grand Canyon accompanies eight individuals with disabilities and their guides as they face the daunting challenges of rafting down 225 miles of the Colorado River and wilderness of Grand Canyon. Throu... »
Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness
This program connects the dots between personal dilemmas facing individuals and families who are living with mental illness, medical practices that can be obstacles to treatment, laws that may have unintended consequences and public policies that all... »
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